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DYING TO MARRY & OTHER STORIES

ISBN : 978-981-229-400-5

Written by : S Manzur

Dimension : 136 x 210 mm

Page Number : 176 pages

Unit : Each

Price : S$ 9.00

New : ★★★★★

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"Dying to Marry" is a story about the price of true love. Deepak has found the woman of his dreams, and poverty seems to be the only obstacle in their plans to marry. Just how far will he go to fulfil his longing for his bride?

Our emotions shape our lives and make us who we are. Emotions such as love, compassion, hatred, envy, sorrow, fear, greed and lust influence our decisions and actions, and thus govern our lives and character. The nine stories in this book will show how true this is.

Some stories are hard to forget, and the ones here in "Dying to Marry & Other Stories" are exactly that way. Whether the stories provoke greater self-examination or simply bring a smile to your lips, you will be glad to have picked up this book.

"I recommend the collection wholeheartedly - its observations are many and diffused, and hold important lessons for us all. The author is clearly someone who has experienced much in life and living. Through the deceptively simple narratives here encased, we as readers become so much the richer in terms of our apprehending life's myriad and oftentimes bewildering twists and turns. These stories can be read by old and young, men and women everywhere for, at bottom, they are about humans and humanity."
- Dr Kirpal Singh

(Plot and character summary)

1. DYING TO MARRY
DEEPAK, a villager, becomes ill and unconscious after a short trip to the nearby city of Nagpur. What caused the sudden illness? Will he survive? In his shirt pocket, the doctors find a paper with a name and address scribbled on it. Investigations reveal that it is a bogus address. Who left it there and why?

2. THE PRISM
Near the pyramids of Giza, MICHAEL suffers a heart attack. While he is writhing in pain he sees a stranger kneeling besides him. Soon the pain goes away and he drifts into a restful sleep. After a while Michael awakens and finds a prism on his chest but the stranger is gone. Who was that stranger?

3. COME RAIN OR SHINE
During his usual Saturday-evening walk, DANNY, goes to Glory Realty building but his friend Joe is not there. That’s highly unusual because Joe has been playing his saxophone there, by the sidewalk, every evening—come rain or shine. Danny is shocked when he finds out what happened to Joe.

4. ATHENA
It is my first visit to Singapore. I come across a Chinese girl, assisting her parents in a hawker centre. While eating in her stall, I chat with her and learn that her 10th birthday is just a few days away. After a few days when I go to see her with a lovely gift in my hand, the hawker centre is not there anymore.

5. TUNNEL VISION
At Bangkok airport PRAMOJ receives ANDREA, his ex college mate from Canada. Straightaway she starts complaining about the airport staff and Thai people and picks fault with each and everything. He can’t believe that it is the same girl that he used to know and admire. What is wrong with her?

6. SCREAMS FROM THE PAST
Aboard M.V.Fortune, the captain and his wife are awakened in the middle of the night by loud screams. The captain rushes out of his bedroom to see who is attacking whom, but there is no one on his deck or the decks below. Where did those screams come from?

7. THE WINNING FORMULA
RICHARD is upset that he is not able to beat the Community Centre’s PC in a game of chess even though he is his school’s best player. He is amazed when an old man beats the PC in his very first attempt. No one in that Community Centre has beaten the PC in chess. How did the old man do it?

8. THE RIVER
On our ship’s arrival in Bangkok, a boat comes alongside and a woman in that boat tries to board our ship by climbing a rope. Our captain orders us to stop her. Our radio officer aims a water jet at her. She falls from the rope and she is about to drown. Why did she take such risk to board our ship?

9. DAVID’S MOTTO
In Mr. Thompson’s class, one of his students stands out because of his extra large briefcase. During the two-week course he seems preoccupied with his briefcase and Mr. Thompson becomes highly curious about the briefcase. What is in that briefcase and why does he bring it to the classroom?

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